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From: "Matthias Grob" <matilists@atarde.com.br> > > I allways felt a bit sad that although live looping makes playing solo > easier, it might also cause people to stay alone. > One of the main reason to build the LOOP delay (which turned into the > EDP) was the BrotherSync feature. > I did the first session with it in '92 with David Hopkins. > But before I had great times to play with others into the same delay > machine. > Some of the best recordings are on > http://matthias.grob.org/pMusic/CDsE.htm > The most intense duos have been with percussionists: Giba, Bira, >David... > > The first festival I participated was Loopstock. I looked for someone >to > bring me there and Jon Wagner offered some space in his overloaded > fantastic old Volvo, next to all his drums. When I heard he was >druming, > I asked to play together, so we met a few days before and figured it >out > and it worked. > And I started this week to edit the video! (learning...) > I will tell you when I upload it. > > And at Y2k7 I invited Arild Andersen to play with me - which was a bit > heavy for me (sync did not work), but still fun! ;-) > > And today I talked with Per and he suggested to bring up this social > subject more, and I said: can you point me at videos of duo recordings, > with at least two players using loops most of the time? He could not. I > met very few > Urban Nature: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJKp8KvABc > Lur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIc1uPcZUY > Improvizone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lV3KN5g-fo (special case > since Os does the looping) > Mich Gerber: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA1srd_bczs (he plays > professionally with a band, but just him looping) > Rick, Per and Pellef: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAySrzSa7Hg > > Yes, to be social here is great, to meet at festivals is even better, >but > the best is to do it together!! > > Matthias > > On 12 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Ricky Graham wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> How many of you loop with an ensemble? Could you get in touch with me >as >> I'd like to ask you a few questions. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ricky Back in the early 90s I was still conceptualizing or gestating what I wanted to happen with the music; I bought my 7.6 Time Machine along with my first QuadraVerb from a guy running a Safari Records in Santa Monica... and the first configuration was like: Guitar -----\ Juno-106 --|-- Mixer --> 4-track PC w MIDI -| Mics -------/ ...with the Time Machine and Quadraverb as Aux I/Os. So between 1992 and when the first 4-track died in 1997, I would drag all this around LA to rather large private parties we were running, and boy was setup a pain until I learned how to plan for it... Around midnight we'd throw ourselves on the instruments, friends on the Juno, or found objects/analog instruments/vocals through the mics. I'd always be on the Strat with pedals in the beginning. Round 1999 I added a pair of Zoom 2100s for guitar use (thanks to David Myers on this list). They saved my cheese one night when the house we played in was completely non-grounded, and you know what that does to a DigiTech loop unit... After the first time in August 1992 I decided to cop the old folk tale and name the efforts Stone Soup Project. It made for a nice environment to do long, conceptual stuff because the players were musically adept with similar tastes (Grateful Dead, Fripp/Eno, the lot). I got ahold of an old Yamaha MT4X to remaster all these recordings - it's got the same track order, remember? - and will be producing a collection of these pieces next year. If I have the ability to make it out there to Santa Cruz I intend to call together surviving participants for a new Stone Soup Project, though it'll probably be down in LA where most of the folks still live. Enuf. Oh, and I posted a new revision of the Kew Water 0.1.4 video, this one hopefully with a Surround mix. SP Goodman * http://www.youtube.com/spgoodman http://www.last.fm/music/Stephen+Goodman